National Geographic’s full video recording of the construction of Adani project

Dating
back to August 2015, Suntech announced to the world that ‘We will carry
out further close cooperation with Adani Power Ltd., which is one of
the largest private independent power producers in India and Suntech
will supply 222.5MW modules for Adani Power’s solar projects.’ As we all
know that Suntech was purchased by Shunfeng company in March 2014 but
returned to the first-class PV module suppliers quickly within one year
after the acquisition while the signing of this crucial project in 2015
was the recognition of Suntech’s product quality and project capability
by Indian customers.

The
Adani power project, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil
nadu, put into operation in 2016 with over 700MW project unit was the
world’s largest solar power station at that time interviewed specially
by National Geography magazine. Suntech took part in the power station
construction as a major module supplier for this project which used 72
high-performance solar cell modules of Suntech Vem series, generating
330GWh of electricity each year and had provided green electricity to
tens of thousands of homes in Tamil nadu. According to statistics, this
project is equivalent to a reduction of 491,300 tons of coal, 1,261,400
tons of carbon dioxide, 36,800 tons of sulfur dioxide and 18,100 tons of
nitrogen oxide, amounting to planting 72207 trees! It was just the
efforts that contributed by Suntech modules for clean energy industry
with such amazing data.

It
is well-known that India has year-round high temperatures. This project
was built along the sea, only about 20km away from the coast, so the
environment factors have a great impact on the power generation of PV
modules. However, the generation capacity of Suntech modules in Adani
power project remains stable three years late with its performance
ranking first among all supplied modules. It could be seen that Suntech
modules still have reliable performance in the tropical monsoon climate
with high temperature and humidity throughout the year, which is the
perfect presentation of Suntech’s pursuit of quality over the years. Top
executives of Adani Power Ltd. also had made many visits to Suntech’s PV testing center and module factory,
and the spirits of Suntech’s continuous commitment to high-performance
and high-power products had won high recognition of Adani Power Ltd. ‘Adani
is one of the top five comprehensive large group in India with its
industries relating to every field like resources, logistics,
agriculture and energy and Adani began to step into clean energy
business at the end of 2014 with their first project of 5 million
silicon adopting Suntech modules and the cooperation between Suntech and
Adani never ends since then. Adani purchase nearly100MW modules from
Suntech every year after more than 200MW order of 2015 and the
recognition of Suntech by Adani provide a strong brand endorsement for
our follow-up development of Indian market.’ claimed Jason in pride, the sales manager in charge of contacting Adani Power Ltd.

India
is a country with extremely unbalanced power supply and demand and the
power supply has been in short in recent years with comparatively severe
situation. According to related government department calculating, at
present there are still about 300 million people among nearly 1.3
billion population of India that couldn’t use electricity normally,
covering 23% more or less of the total. In January 2014, the Indian
prime minister Narendra Modi announced the solar revitalization plan: that
is by 2022 India will achieve a total of 175GW of renewable energy
power generation, including 100GW of solar installing capacity, 40GW of
solar rooftop power generation project and 60GW of large and
medium-sized solar power grid project with a total investment of about
800-1000 billion yuan. India has already been the world’s fifth
largest PV cumulative installing market and the second largest new
installing market with expectations of the installing capacity of
renewable energy in India increasing by 15.86GW in 2019.

Suntech
is one of the module companies first entering the Indian market owning
lots of excellent cases and delivers continuously green power to local
residents by Suntech modules in Daman, Karnataka, Mondra and other
regions of India. Suntech, together with India, standing at the
forefront of the energy revolution with confidence and passion for the
energy future believes that PV will be the electricity way of changing
the future world, for the sun creates everything and technology changes
the future. Suntech will also work with Indian local developers to enter
the overseas market. Since Adani has projects under construction in
Australia, America, North Africa and other regions, Suntech will repay
this sincere trust with more stable and reliable products.

Suntech modules have received the VDE Quality-Tested certification, attesting that the quality of Suntech modules exceed existing industry standards.

The VDE created its VDE Quality-Tested seal of approval to recognize a level of quality control that goes beyond existing standards in the PV industry when validating PV modules. Low rates of degradation and high safety standards are essential aspects of attaining VDE certification.

Compared to other industry standards, such as the IEC61215 and IEC61730-2, the VDE Quality-Tested seal relies on a more rigorous examination of performance capabilities.